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Thursday's Question:
What movie do Thora Birch, Wes Bentley and Mena Suvari have in common?
Wednesday's Answer:
Virgil
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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1600
Italian philospher, alchemist, and Copernican theory advocate Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy by the Inquisition.
1801
The electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was broken by the House of Representatives who elected Jefferson president.
1817
Baltimore became the first U.S. city lit by gas.
1864
The Confederate submarine Hunley, equipped with an explosive at the end of a protruding spar, rammed and sank the Union's ship Housatonic off the coast of Charleston, S.C.
1904
Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly premiered in Milan.
1972
President Richard Nixon left on his trip to China.
1996
Chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM computer, Deep Blue, winning the six-game match.
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Top Ten Highlights Of Kim Jong-Il's Birthday Celebration 10. Kim Jong-Il's grand entrance inside an egg
9. Wings and video games at the Pyongyang Dave & Busters
8. Reunited Kim Jong-Il with his three sons Robbie, Chip and Ernie Jong-Il
7. The birthday phone call from Dick Cheney
6. He's flying everyone in the country to Australia
5. Free breakfast from CAA in the 11th floor conference room
4. Kim Jong-Il unveiled a brand new pair of oversized ladies sunglasses
3. Rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday" performed by starving dissidents held at gunpoint
2. Carvel cake in shape of nut-zapping torture box
1. Special Top Ten lis presented by Lindsay Lohan
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flounce \FLOUNSS\ DEFINITION verb
a : to move with exaggerated jerky or bouncy motions b : to go with sudden determination2: flounder, struggle EXAMPLES
Bernard flounced around the house in a huff, yanking doors open and slamming them shut as he stomped from room to room.
"The Master of the Music flounced out with the choir flouncing out in perfect unison behind him." -- From Terry Pratchett's 2009 novel Unseen Academicals DID YOU KNOW?
The story behind "flounce" is an elusive one. The verb's first recorded use in English occurred in 1542, and some scholars believe it is related to the Norwegian verb "flunsa" (meaning "to hurry" or "to work briskly") and Swedish "flunsa" ("to fall with a splash" or "to plunge"). The connection is uncertain, however, because the "flunsa" verbs did not appear in their respective languages until the 18th century, long after "flounce" surfaced in English. A second distinct sense of "flounce," referring to a strip or ruffle of fabric attached on one edge, did not appear in English until the 18th century. This "flounce" derives from the Middle English "frouncen" ("to curl").
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